This not guilty verdict is saddening but not surprising. In the past several years, Renisha McBride was shot in the head and lay dying on the front porch of the man who shot her through a locked door, several transwomen of color have been killed, we watched a video where Eric Garner begged for his…
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The Assassination of Renisha McBride: A Brief Analysis of When Racial Profiling, Hate Crimes, and Stand Your Ground Laws Collide.
I went to a writer’s workshop yesterday. The workshop leader was teaching us how to write a good query letter. “To write a good query letter,” he said, “We have to write something that people care about.” I froze and then slid into a historical, existential form of African American sadness. Who cares about the…
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